Tönnies Hellmann

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Tönnies Hellmann (born September 29, 1912 in Hamburg ; † October 9, 2004 in Hamburg) was a German pacifist and Christian as well as a former communist .

Life

Hellmann learned the ship carpenter's trade at Blohm & Voss . At the age of 15 he joined the trade union , at 20 he sat in a workers' evening school twice a week for a year and learned the concepts of Marxism and Leninism . From 1927 he was an active member of the trade union, in the Communist Youth Association and in the Red Front Fighters League .

From 1930 to 1933 he was active in the party self-protection of the KPD in Hamburg, actively involved in many disputes with the SA and the SS and during this time had three political criminal records. In 1933 he was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned for six months in the remand prison and in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp . Hellmann was released in 1934, but had to report to the Gestapo all the time. He married, and the young couple moved in with their in-laws, also Communists who worked illegally for the banned KPD. In 1941 he joined the resistance group around Bernhard Bästlein . He was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1943 and served on the Eastern Front for two years . On May 9, 1945, soldier Hellmann was lying in front of Prague , where Czech partisans took him prisoner. From there he was sent to work in Siberia . It was not until 1950 that he returned from a Soviet prisoner of war .

Tönnies Hellmann was married twice. At the end of his life he saw himself as a pacifist and a Christian and was involved with schoolchildren and students in dealing with history.

literature

  • Friedrich Dönhoff , Jasper Barenberg: I was definitely not a hero: The life story of Tönnies Hellmann, port worker in Hamburg , Rowohlt, Reinbek, 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "I was definitely not a hero." Reading on the 100th birthday of Tönnies Hellmann. Reading with Jasper Barenberg , also in the Morgenland Gallery / Eimsbüttel History Workshop: The focus is on Eimsbüttel sports history (s). Program August September October 2012, p. 4 (with picture; PDF; 1.4 MB)
  2. ↑ The party was his life In: taz , December 28, 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Hellmann, Tönnies
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German shipbuilders and resistance fighters
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2004
Place of death Hamburg